Clothes-pounder.



J. LURTZ.

CLOTHES POUNDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 15, 191s.

1,9759584, ,Patented 0.@t.14,1913.

il I l'lEl il JOHN LURTZ, OF WEST PULLIVIAN, ILLINOIS.

CLOTHES-POUNDER.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 14,1913.

Application ied March 15, 1913. Serial No. 754,477.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, JOHN LURTZ, citizen of the United States, residing at West Pullman, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Founders, of which the following is a specification.

lIhis invention relates to improvements in clothes pounders, and has for its objects to provide a device with few parts and easy to assemble, that will perform its function as a serviceable and practicable clothes washer, even in the hands of an unskilled person.

In construction, my invention includes a multiplicity of chambers, with varying dimensions, having openings or passageways, that connect certain other chambers, battles that cover openings in the outer shell or body, and a soap chamber within the shell.

In the drawing-Figure 1 is a bottom end view of the article. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

Referring specifically to the drawings, 3 indicates a central socket to receive the end of the handle 17, and to the outer side of which socket the outer conical casing 4 is attached. A series of chambers 13 are formed within this shell, by means of curved members or plates 1st which arc secured on their outer sides to the inner surface of the shell 4, and at their inner edges to the outer surface of an inner tapering tube 7 which is located at the center of the device, and the upper end of which is secured to the socket piece 3. The chambers 13 are somewhat conical in shape, by reason of the curvature and method of attachment of the plates 14 thereof, and a series of these chambers are spaced around the central tube. In the spaces between the chambers, the shell 4; is provided with openings 5, outside of which are guard plates or batiies 6, attached to the outside of the casing 4L, to prevent splashing. The lower end of the central tube 7 forms a soap chamber 8 which is closed at the upper end by a cross plate 9 which supports the lower end of the socket 3. A perforated lid or cover 10 closes the lower end of the soap chamber 8. rI`his cover may be removed, being fitted in the lower end of the tube and held in place by spring engagement of the rim 12 of the cover in a bead 11 in the lower end of the tube. rIhe tube has holes 16 communicating between the soap chamber and the chambers 13 as well as the spaces in the outer shell between said chambers 13.

In operation the pounder is moved up and down in contact with the clothes, and the chambers described produce a suction which drives or draws the water through the clothes, some of the water escaping at each stroke through the holes 5. The movement of the pounder also causes a circulation of the water through the perforations in the cover 10 and through the holes 16 to the suction chambers, the soap being placed in the soap chamber 8 for the purpose of making a suds.

`What I claim as new is:

A clothes pounder comprising a conical shell provided with a handle, a central tube within said shell, forming a soap holder, a plurality of spaced tapered chambers located between the tube and shell, said chambers comprising curved walls the outer sides of which are in contact with the inner surface of the shell and the inner spaced edges of which are secured to the central tube, the shell having openings through the same, at the spaces between the chambers, and the central tube having openings through the same, from the soap holder into said chambers.

In testimony whereof, I my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOI-IN LURTZ.

Vitnesses D. D. SwnM, A. MURPHY.

Copies of Jthis patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C." 

